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This Tuesday, I woke up to find we are in the opening act of a national public health crisis that could shutter every institution for weeks or months, that the global financial markets are tripping towards meltdown… #DemDebate
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… and that a leading presidential candidate, Joe Biden thinks that he can bring us “back to normal” by appointing JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to run the treasury department. #DemDebate
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By nightfall on Monday, Biden vowed to veto Medicare for All if an inspired Congress were to pass it and send it to his desk. cnbc.com/2020/03/10/biden-says-he-wouldd-veto-medicare-for-all-as-coronavirus-focuses-attention-on-health.html #DemDebate
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Our times are not normal. Our time, right now, is about rising to the scale of the problems we confront. Those problems were started by keeping things on the normal track and denying the urgency of crises:
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Where was Biden on climate change and rising inequality, Wall Street deregulation before the crash? Who unleashed tear gas and water cannons on Occupy? Who fails to rise to the moral challenges of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter?
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More broadly, we need a 2020 campaign that is as visionary and hopeful as Obama in 2008, but more committed to fundamental change in the aftermath. Bernie Sanders, working with grassroots movements, is building that campaign. woborders.blog/2020/03/10/im-endorsing-sanders/